@@saralotti7174 and conflicting data is quickly removed from the public, denounced as disinformation and scientists providing information are removed from online or fired with large scale smear campaigns.
@@georgemead6608 Oh but that's The Science™ not science! Fauci owns the rights and will make sure he makes the maximum returns for his good pals in big pharma.
Another excellent video, you should create an eCourse on how to read studies, types of studies and data analysis for layman. Much needed in these times. 🙏🏽
That’s a good idea. I’m sure it takes years to get really proficient at it, but a beginner’s guide to reading studies or something along those lines would definitely be interesting for me. He’s such a great teacher and communicator. Cool to see you posting on Vinay’s channel BTW.
As a retired systems engineer, I am appalled at how reckless the medical community has been in regard to covid mitigation. There was an extremely narrow focus on actions that not only had little if any benefit, but likely cause greater harm longer term. There seemed to be almost no cost/benefit analysis.
It might be the biggest public health catastrophe in our time. The repercussions still aren't completely known, we don't know how many people actually died from lockdowns, especially in other countries. I read that 5+ million kids died in asia from famine since lockdowns started, millions plunged back into poverty. We're going to be dealing with the consequences of this "pandemic" for decades to come, exactly what the governments wanted because it gives them a boogeyman to "fix."
I am amazed myself how come public official end deciding a "one-size-fit-all" strategy and still double down when it became obvious it was counter-productive. Health/Disease is complex, who with any competence believe that a miracle solution would be the end of the pandemic?
In the ultimate irony, the people who say they are fighting systemic racism, allowed white male owned businesses to stay open, while closing POC and women owned businesses.
Science entertains calls for proof and repeatability, science entertains challenges to/for proof. Science does not condone dogmatic claims to infallibility, science does not attack demands for proof, it presents the data and seeks repeatability.
@@Eyes0penNoFear "Teh Science" just means whatever you want it to mean nowadays. There are numerous to interpret data (which are often poorly gathered) to direct the narrative you wish to convey.
That's the best video ever! It took me 3 courses in a research PhD program to understand how to differentiate which research is credible and good and which is "garbage in = garbage out." The answer is in the research design. Statistics don't lie, but research design does.
"Most science is not credible, it's not true, it's not believable, it's not useful, it's not actionable. It's done to inflate careers and often for profit entities." I am saving this quote from this video. I am a scientist myself, and I have come to the same conclusion over the past few years (not necessarily related to covid-19). It is very difficult for a scientist to recognize this, and then to come to terms with it, because we all enter science with certain ideals. And then it's very important to acknowledge it, because the whole society needs to understand what science is, what it isn't, and how easily it gets deformed by external factors. I really enjoy your videos, great work Vinay!
I would expect that almost ALL science is wrong by definition of the process. Science is a metholodology to find the facts, and when you have the facts then it is no longer science.
Maybe a video I saw today sheds some light. It was of a school administrator who justified masking toddlers so they would obey masking regimens when they are 5.
Probably... in the same manner that many people still wear sweatshirts with their favorite teams logo on it. Both are clothing choices meant to advertise where your loyalties lay.
@@Dragonslairminis Thanks for sharing🤔?? Very bizarre people engage with things they hate; or feel compelled to insert negativity where there is none. I never do that. I don't really understand it. If I "hate" something, I steer clear of it.
I've thoroughly enjoyed Vinay's gradual but steady red pilling. This Canadian thanks you for all the hard work Mr Prassad! I appreciate you very much. Sending HOOOONNNKK your way :)
On of the reasons I watch your videos is because you champion the needs of children. As an elementary school teacher, I am mortified by what the pandemic has done to children. I am seeing first hand the damage of decisions that were made. I agree with science having its place, but ultimately spirituality, love, family, nature, community and God are just as integral to our world being able to function successfully.
It wasn't just that they were wrong, what bothers me is the absolute vilification of those who didn't believe the ridiculous rules and "science". The vitriol is purposeful. And the masses believed it. My fellow nurses and doctors and smart friends.
As a fellow physician with a much more limited history of research experience, I congratulate Dr. Prasad for his excellent presentation and analysis. He is one to listen to. It is so difficult to speak science in a way the average person can understand. He does a good job of trying to explain incredibly complex topics. He still succumbs to research speak at moments, but that is virtually unavoidable.
I appreciate your ruminations. You always examine everything from as many angles as possible and that is refreshing in today's politically charged environment where that is far from the norm. I believe you framed things correctly by saying that we humans would like to be omnipotent in our quest to better our lives by science but you acknowledge we are far from it, as human bias inevitably creeps in. Keep up the good work and keep us informed with your ruminations!
Dr. O. Could you do a video with Dr. Z Dogg & Dr. Monica? You three are great together! Thanks. I also like Yours & Dr. Z Dogg podcast. You three are the best! No fear mongering goes on & your all quite funny! Thanks for all you do to keep up safe!
I have been impressed with the recent actions in Denmark. They seem to be truly trying to follow the science and keep politics out of science decisions.
I agree but at the same time we shouldn't be giving any governments credit for what should have been done 2 months after the pandemic started. To JUST NOW start following the legitimate science is utterly insane. 2 years, 2 years. A fifth of a decade we've spent on this bull shit. If you would have told people at the start of the pandemic that in 2022 we'd still be "dealing" with covid (the policies of covid, not covid itself) you'd be called a lunatic conspiracy theorist... yet here we are. Incredible how citizens are having to fight for the simple right to get back to how we were in 2019. Biggest public health catastrophe of our time and it wasn't covid that caused it, it was the policies and laws.
Love your content! I discovered you from breaking points which is my top news source. They are the best truly. Even though there's not much competition today because our media is so toxic
My insider tip... if the MSN doesn’t talk about it, it’s likely to have some credibility... sad times for western democracies, however a little intellectual honesty will easily confirm my hypothesis... love your work and thank you for being there when it mattered ...
This was a masterpiece! As a long time fan of both Nassim Taleb and John Ioannidis, you are one of the very few empiricists I believe has good methodological standards.
Lol empiricist? Did he follow the science on masking from day one. Did he advocate for natural immunity the gold standard which all vaccines hope to emulate? Or did he push vaccines and masks?
@@dubskins420 Vinay Prasad never pushed or backed everyone wearing cloth masks that I am aware of, in fact, I believe he conducted a study showing that they didn't work, but I might be wrong about it being him who actually did the study.
I had hoped for a national Vitamin D campaign back in 2020. Vitamin D deficiency was a primary risk factor for bad tuberculosis outcomes. I expect to see similar findings with Covid-19.
In the early days of covid I started on a mission to find out anything I could find about preventing it. It wasn't that hard to find out about Vit D deficiency, and have been supplementing D3/K2 ever since.
The very scientists that once argued more RCTs are best for any intervention, suddenly justify lack of RCTs before deploying interventions because its "disingenuous" to do otherwise. Unbelievable.
It is very weird, isn't it. My prior has always been a skepticism of RCTs when it comes to individual (medical) choices. There are too many individual variables - it doesn't make sense that Drug A is always the best for every single individual. But now it feels like in the only arena where RCTs could actually provide some quite straight forward answers, Public Health and NPIs, this almost religious reliance on RCTs is out the window. I find it very baffling that in the instance where experience and a "gut feeling" would be a good thing (prescribing statins, blood pressure control, HRT etc) some advocate for a strict "evidence based" approach, whereas in an arena where human intuition is so much more likely to be wrong (mass interventions) "EBM" is out the window for many people.
I enjoy your videos thoroughly. Only disagreement here is that "science is best". I think many scientists have been duped becasue they dont understand the political and philosophical underpinnings of what is happening in the world and this has led them to this arrogant notion of "trust the science". It is this notion that has also led to this ivory tower effect of dismissing anyone without a PhD, even if their intuitions are spot on. Many without a simple bachelors could see what was happening way back in 2020 but were laughed at - now they are proven right
If I had been pushing for these lockdowns and restrictions, I would be concerned about what's coming. I think you've been played as the scapegoat for an economic calamity that's been in the works for years, the lockdowns will take most of the blame along with those who insisted on it's implementation. The fact that many, if not most, of you brow beat honest questioning and hard working people into submission on these questions will put the percieved blame squarely at your feet.
Science, and I mean proper science that actually follows the scientific method is non-ex!stent in virology. So no one can say that there is or ever was a "v-!-r us". Unfortunately, most people don't understand the methods used in virology, so they don't realize these fictional "v-!-r us" objects have never been seen or found in a person's clinical specimen. They're ONLY found as artifacts in cell culture experiments that virologists perform. Yet, these things have become the modern equivalent of "evil spirits" for today's society. Beliefs. Really. All with mass regulations, ritualistic like injections, masks, etc. based on these beliefs. I think it's time people learned the truth. Those are the facts.
@@Eyes0penNoFear there are many new "religions" today, because when you remove religion from a persons life they seek a new one, and in these modern times they found many harmful "religions" to fanatically devote themselves to.
People forget how long it took our ancestors to discover which herbs healed which illnesses and how much (poison is in the dose). They expect science and medicine to progress fast all the time and to have success more often than not, which from what I’ve read actually is the opposite. As far as lockdowns you are absolutely right that we should look at each place as unique. NY and Italy had worse early outcomes- living in close quarters. Science talks about individualized medicine as the future utilizing genetics… but we didn’t look at people and communities as individuals. We lumped everyone into the same situation regardless of the place they live, community spread, and even viewed everyone as having the same base health by offering the same vaccine for everyone. Absolutely nothing about an individualized medical approach (considering underlying health issues or robust health, previous infection..)
Thanks Vinay, this was one of your most thoughtful and analytic pieces. I particularly appreciate the wider context within which it is placed. I came across your work a few months ago as part of my own research into understanding what has happened over the last two years. I am a public servant by profession - with a higher education in philosophy and sociology - and long felt uneasy about many of the policy decisions being taken by my country from 2020, before starting to put that into a conceptual framework from about early 2021. Your work has helped my thinking a lot. Looking back over the last two years, the carnage and near wanton destruction instituted by people like myself albeit much higher up who ought to have known better - who are expected to know better - is heartbreaking. We did that. Without care aforethought. As you said in this piece, a true analysis of the harms wrought by these "interventions" awaits but I think it will be a grim reckoning. Thanks again for your work and takes over the last many months. Keep it up and stay true. Good luck and fair winds to you.
This video pairs great having just recently read your book, Ending Medical Reversal. Highly recommend to any and all whether you’re in the field or not
i agree with most of vinays arguments and conclusions...but i dont understand why he advises at least one shot to young healthy people...i am just very sceptical on the early warning systems like VAERS bc i know in my country austria they publicly threaten doctors with their license when they report too much side effects (it is a public letter to countless doctors. the gov printed it in the newspapers...like they are proud of being the "ministry of truth and science" while our gov is openly being advised by pfizer and novartis playing their lobby puppets) and the threatening goes on since the lockdowns which is always a big chilling effect from the beginning ..they fired the best medical professors in our universities for having different opinions..doctors just went with the narrative step by step (they are just in pokerface mode when you ask them directly about the mandates) and hospitals were glad they had the lockdown break bc elderly were locked up in the retiremend home.. doctors just fall in line bc many dont have the courage i dont understand why Prasad advises young and healthy people to take the covid vaccine...he knows all the biases in the orignal data with other illnesses and unknown CT values..he knows how harmfull lockdowns can be and its excess mortality (i hope he compares the overall mortality of similar european countries like lockdown and excess-death-heavy austria with sweden)..he knows the counterproductive mask symptoms which are very similar to long C he knows for young people the risk of severe covid is very very slim even with the bias in the data..many dont even have to be "infected" and develop antibodies..many have such a strong immune system their body just blocks it off without being infected ..-and the fearmongering weakens the immune system ..etc why should a healthy young person take the V when we dont even have transparent data on the control trials and only deeply biased "covid numbers" instead of the crucial OVERALL mortality distributed with the vaccine status? we only have the damn testing bias with selective covid numbers and not overall mortality the most important data for a risk benefit is missing..the risk benefit is based only on "covid data" which makes up just 2% of overall mortality.. cherry picking/selection bias to fit the agenda
Been enjoying your presentations, you’re one of the few voices of balance without the alarm. It is my understanding that there have been a number of RCT’s on the effectiveness of public mask wearing and they have all demonstrated essentially negligible benefit for reducing transmission of URV’s. Not that we shouldn’t continue such tests, but at what point are we justified in concluding that an intervention lacks sufficient evidence to be considered valuable? Certainly in the case of masks there is zero data to support universal public mask mandates. The philosophical, historical, skeptical minded person can’t help but be nudged toward cynicism when the tribalism and divisiveness of the mask issue seems to be a handy tool for the “othering” tactic wielded so unscrupulously by the political class. The absence of any real data supporting masks seems to indicate there are other motivations for such policies. Anyway, I doubt anyone will read this but that’s where I’m at with the masks, having read the summaries of a number of RCT’s done over the last 60 years or so, and seeing them fail so badly anecdotally. Interested in other perspectives, keep up the great work, Dr.
Hi PD, I choose to respond to your post as much because you wrote that you did to expect anyone to read it but also because you are correct, one of the fundamental principles of scientific work is that it careful study of any topic fails to reveal any substantial and repeatable evidence to confirm the hypothesis then that hypothesis is not valid, this is not the same as the burden of proof require to support any claim as 'true', it is simply so much easier to dis-prove a concept than prove it. This does not appear to be an idea that is familiar to politicians and journalists, people that for one reason or another are concerned with getting the right answer and being in control of the facts, critical review and integrity are not required. Cheers, Richard.
Very good video. The reason we don’t know the goal, is that the goal keeps changing. It’s not flattening the curve anymore, it’s preventing every possible death due to COVID. Just don’t worry about all the other deaths resulting from the intervention strategy. The problem with waiting for a longer term study is all the damage that continues to be done by unscientific responses and guessswork.
How to tell in a a subtle way in order not to piss off the youtube censors, that the FDA sucks big time regarding vaccine trials. Especially the trials for kids 6 months to 5 years of age.
Wow! That was amazing! So honest and intelligent and yet understandable. So many opportunities were missed during this pandemic. And lots of unnecessary damage has been done too.
My observation of science over the last couple years in a nutshell: People (who are not scientists) questioning science that doesn’t seem to make sense being mocked by other people (also not scientists) for questioning said science even though they never actually read or reviewed it and they only know about it because someone on TV (also not a scientist) told them it’s what the science said and later turned out to be inaccurate after all (oops!). During all this, an actual scientist was saying idiotic things like “if you question me, your really questioning science” which is a ludicrously non-scientific thing for s scientist to say, especially a high ranking one… It’s been a real banner couple years for science alright… 🙄
Were living in the twilight zone. I REFUSE to accept this as the “new normal”. When this is over, I guarantee the sheepish ppl will gladly continue living in fear even though their precious scientists said its over.
Love the way Vinay is so balanced and I always come away feeling I have learned from watching his videos Wish we had more people in science and medicine like him Just ordered the book
In my youth I worked on cars (before computers). The car did not run so you came up with a theory of why and then started testing the theory. One by one the theory had to change as testing provided more information. In the end when the car ran again I had a theory about what had been wrong but even then it could have been a combination of things. What I learned was it is ok to try things but you also have to be willing to move on if something does not work. I took this experience on to my life as an Analog Designer but I am so surprised when so called engineers are so sure of themselves because of what they learned in school when the data points in another direction.
How refreshing to hear honest, objective observations & analysis, devoid of political, professional or monetary incentives that have infected public policies & healthcare system.
How do I tell if a study is true? Generally, I look for things getting dubbed "right wing" or watch for posts to be removed. Either happens, I expect around 60 to 70% to be true, but If main stream media/socials ( especially Twitter ) and the White House melts down at the same time, it means someone nailed it. Of course, I will always confirm with someone like you that knows the science, but that method works almost every time. Off topic: did you see the new Sabaton song? Totally rockin and awesome story to go with. Good break from all the hard work you do :) Love ya
Hi, Ellen. A word of caution, if I may... The idea of a study 'getting dubbed' this or that has no bearing on the study itself. It's just someone's opinion about the study. Whatever the media, either mainstream, pundits, or alternative may think or say about any particular study is irrelevant. Irrelevant. This is the case whether the study is regarded credible or not credible by either side, or by no side at all. The only way to tell if a study has reached conclusions that are sound is to examine the details of the study itself. And, as Dr. Prasad mentioned, there are many elements of the study that can be poorly designed and/or controlled for. So, unless one is not only trained in the scientific method, but also has some experience designing and carrying-out studies, they aren't really in a position to say whether its conclusions are true. I know that's not what any particular human psyche prefers to imagine but it happens to be the case. So, again, to decide whether a study is true based on 'who says what' about it isn't at all scientifically based. Even competent, credible experts can sometimes err, and as much as we may not want to admit it... sometimes the buffoons stumble their way into or upon truth. Cheers!
@@RichardHarlos In a sane world, a study would only be labeled as right wing if it was right wing. But today, anything that doesn't agree with the mainstream narrative is immediately labeled as a right wing conspiracy nut and censored, regardless of political affiliation, especially when it is true. There are a lot of left leaning libertarians being labeled as right wing conspiracy nuts just for wanting to protect their freedoms.
@@nathaeladalyah9681 Glad someone gets it. Like I said, I'm never going to completely discount anything and I'll double check here, but basically if the blue check marks and federal level people swear it's true, it means I probably better dig deeper. If they swear it's conspiracy, I grab popcorn and wait 3 or 4 days. At least 95% of the time it's true at least in part. I don't know about what music he likes, I just loved it and thought I'd share. :)
God, reading so many of these comments here is so depressing. Objective reality doesn't give a shit about your politics. As cathartic it may be to say, "hah! Anything libtards don't like must be good actually" is stupid. Stop being stupid.
I'm glad to hear this troubling issue aired! I'm a retired statistical programmer who reads a great deal of biomedical literature: clinical trials, observational studies, meta-analyses, policy statements, and just expressions of opinion (which are not always clearly distinguished by the journals that publish them), and many make me miserable. One problem is that professional statisticians have such a restricted role: they're often not involved in experimental design at all; in fact, I frequently see papers that have no statisticians among their authors. I've also seen publications with about 30 authors which have only one statistician or epidemiologist among them and conclude that a drastic action should be taken. I remember an especially notorious policy paper that made bizarre recommendations for new treatment restrictions but did not explain how they were derived from a list of publications with the inappropriate header "References"; although there were several (very polite and timid) objecting responses, there were no calls for retraction. I can only guess that these things slip through either because the recommendations are popular among professionals or because no one among them really cares about those patients who might be hurt.
Very informative and educating video. Agree on the science analysis spoken in the video but I have to say for me personally, the lockdowns were the beginning to the end of democracy. Not so much as a test for the science but for the people in control to the amount of freedoms that they could easily remove from people in the name of public health
Another great video from Dr Prasad. Thank you! I believe science is the best thing we have. Science is not perfect, and the good or bad outcome of it only depends on us, humans. Far too many errors occur from lack of discussions, from the power that some have to silence others, from decisions that are one sided and don't allow any other voice to be heard. Science isn't owned by anyone, but during the last two years, it sadly seems to have been.
“Doing science” takes PATIENCE! Instant gratification is what you get with science experiments in a kitchen, HS, or college lab. It is not how true scientific advancements typically take place. We live in an impatient world. Awesome answer to your student’s question! I’d love to hear even more on the subject!
I would love to hear a discussion between Dr. Prasad and Tess Lawrie one day. Some sort of retrospective covering study integrity, techniques of meta analysis, etc.
A reporter for the hill submitted the idea that lockdowns may have been counterproductive. He basically argued that we are social creatures, and that imposing an edict against outdoor gatherings only increased indoor gatherings. If you can’t congregate at the beach, or in the park, or even in your own yard because the Karen next door might call the cops, then you’re probably just going to gather in doors, which we know is much worse for spreading COVID.
This is probably very true. I give you as examples the Nordic countries that did have "lockdowns". Already in spring of 2020 we were _encouraged_ by PH people to meet friends and family outdoors. (At one point in May 2020 in Finland I idly wondered whether people would ever go back to meeting in cafés and restaurants when everyone has discovered how much nicer and cheaper it is to have a pick nick in the park... )
now imagine canada.. we were locked down so hard.. it was messed up.. they had tiff here but canadians couldn’t attend unless u were rich and vaxed.. made no sense.. and clearly celebes didn’t qurantine.. people arrived on the day.. lockdowns have destoryed our economy.. and gov still hasn’t learnt
I personally think it's all part of an orchestrated plan. If a country is on knees ,its easier to control. Pure and simple facts show the elites have been buying up all failed businesses, property and market shares. This isn't a coincidence, eventually if this carrys on we will own nothing and be controlled by the powerful and elites of this world pal. I really do hope Canada and the worls stay strong to stop this madness.
Wow, I am so impressed at your ability to see the big picture AND the relationship of all the strings of an unbelievable amount of intersecting information.
Absolutely brilliant. I used to kinda like you, but now I love you. Subscribed. This video cuts through the crap with the sharpest of knives. Thank you for for speaking up.
I dont comment often, thank you for your rational and honest discussion about medicine. Its so frustrating to try and have discussions today as so many dont think this way!
There's a difference between not knowing due to first time experience and intentional single focused group thinking where any other viewpoint is dismissed and gaslighting takes the place of being open to ideas. We were subjected to the latter and to a certain degree, still is.
Thank you Dr. Vinay Prasad MD., I'm so happy to find you, and your work, to bring awareness to everybody in such professional way. Proud of you, namaste 🙏
here's the study i want to see: vaccinated vs unvaccinated. there are plenty of people for both sides to use for subjects and the government has all the info needed to carry this out....and protect people's information. let's start with the kids vaccinations
The tragedy of this pandemic is that we more or less ignored the data. From the start of the pandemic we have ignore it. We knew very on that the people who were dying were largely older and had pre-existing conditions but we chose to ignore it because we chose to listen to the drumbeat of fear; which was stoke by the corporate media cared more about the profits tat they could make covering a disaster than they cared about telling people the truth and educating them about what was going on. They were the ones calling for masking in spite of the fact that there was no credible evidence, at the time, that they worked. They were the ones who were largely calling for lockdowns even though most public health officials knew the dangers and were reluctant to make those calls. And they were the ones whom the politicians listened to because they had the power to bring down the politicians and portray them as imbeciles. They were the ones who were driving these decisions. They are the ones responsible for this disaster.
Define “we” I know myself and many others didn’t ignore that data. In know medical staff in NY eventually ended the states shuffling of positive patient through nursing homes. “We” didn’t ignore. The media and their govts did pretend things were different than they were. “They” did.
@@-astrangerontheinternet6687 I am not talkin bout you or me. I am talking about the media and the politicians who willfully chose to ignore the data very early on in favor of this fear narrative which made it appear as though younger people were as much risk as older people; which was blantantly false even back in March 2020.
Hi Vinay, what should we make of the fact the NIH and Oxford Medical could not manage to complete a trial to show the efficacy of the drug I can not mention. How is it possible these well respected institutions fail in such a simple task?
This was spot on and my favorite rambling to date. The only lack of real science is that science measures what is measurable but not how much something is valued.
Medical education has failed to epic proportions during COVID-19. Many medical schools sent the students home. Some medical schools kept students from interacting with COVID-19 patients. Exactly the opposite of what life was like when I was a medical student. We did not avoid HIV patients!
I really appreciate your lessons. In a gentle and logical way you remind us all that we don’t know what we don’t know and we should always be cautious.
It's refreshing to see this sober and humble perspective on science. This is one example of what truly being pro-science (not pro-scientific dogma) looks like.
I love your approach ,its balanced and delivered in a compassionate way. NO ONE LIKES to be proven wrong ,but you make it clear that you believe they were acting in good faith . Makes letting go of deeply held beliefs a whole lot easier . Love your videos
Good points made - the human situation is incredibly complex ! Science can definitely help to sort things out if it is used and applied by people with the necessary intellect , a “moral” background and good intentions ! - but we know from our history and can see it every day that science is also used by people who are only interested in their own profits and power ! It’s really different Interests and motivations of all sorts of people who are working against each other that complicates everything ! For every honest person who tries to clarify and help you have one that tries to obscure and distort ! The Tools are there - the question is who uses them - and to which purpose ?
Another GREAT talk. “Needlepoints” by Dr Norman Doidge is a great summary of the neural pathways underlying this societal response. Highly recommend. Love you VP!!!
I don't want this to come across the wrong way.... but you got a real nice voice man! Keep up the good work and and thank you for working for honesty, truth and freedom in a very unbiased, fact based way! Respect! Here in Calgary they knew what neighborhoods were having outbreaks, what big box stores were having staff outbreaks, etc, but they wouldn't publicize these 'dangerous' areas to avoid because they were afraid of singling people out and appearing biggoted. They felt it was more important to protect their woke image than straight up protecting the public based on avoiding a contagion.
Completely agree that most science is not credible. As an engineer that likes to push the limits, I find we are often operating at a greatly simplified version of the truth. Each new study is a small hint of what the truth is, not the truth itself.
Lockdown here destroyed small bussineses. No solo walking in empty street after 9pm,but overcrowded busses when you dont have even 5cm free space next to you were allowed.
Love your commitment to science. I appreciate a rational voice that isn't swayed by political opinion or popular through. It's a rarity to find someone like you these days. Thank you!
So if we'd done what the GBD said, we would have had at least as good an outcome, probably much much better. Who knew that the best advice and preparation from the best experts would have been better than the throw the book out the window method.
I think you can debate this. At least in a pre-vaccine era. The problem with the GDB is that it called for things that were not practically do-able on short notice to the extent that would be needed. You only need to compare Sweden with its neighbours to see this. The more I think of it, the more I feel it is tragic that the GDB didn't come half a year later, because in a situation where you have vaccines the calculus really shifts in its favour.
I think Vinay prasad may just be up there with the great Carl Sagan as one of the great science educators the world has ever known. Thanks for your competence, Doctor!
I look forward to reading your book. Please consider narrating it yourself if you release it on Audible. Thank you for being one of a few beacons of reason and true scientific inquiry throughout this mess.
The whole point of a doctor patient relationship is for a learned individual, who knows your specific health situation, to consult with you to derive the best care for you. So much of this has been railroaded in our current medical scenario. Many do not have a family or personal physician. They use emergency or urgent care, either due to lack of insurance in the US or inability to find a physician in Canada. Even when you find a family physician in Canada, they often are only there to treat the latest symptom, write a prescription and move to the next patient. As a Canadian I have been fortunate to find good physicians, but have run into the symptom/pill popper type as well. When there is a shortage of GOOD physicians and the system rewards/encourages those who would rather write prescriptions than diagnose issues, we have no real healthcare provider to advocate for the individual. Everyone's healthcare is an individual case. I feel Dr Prasad is an honourable physician, but I fear there aren't enough to go around. And Big Pharma has been muddying the waters.
This channel is so refreshing. I worry that I tend to listen to people that confirm my own biases but Plenary Session has been so helpful in navigating covid science. We should get you on Rogan! It may sound crazy but his audience is a ton of people who are skeptical but don't always have the right tools to analyze data. I think they would really like you. Talk to the breaking points peeps about it!
Excellent break-down of the flaws in these IFR studies. Over the last 20 years, in the realm of clinical pathology (my area) I have seen an alarming increase in 'junk' data analysis... Why is this? It is simple it is coming from universities and their lack of rigor, discipline and adherence to the very foundation of data analysis.
One of your best. A true public health perspective. Having worked on public health and witness to biased research funded by pharma or fir gain by egotistical so called scientists , this was a comprehensive explanation from every side. Public Health takes every aspect of the population into consideration, not just one as it was done in the last 2 years.
Too many scientists have stopped being scientists and instead have become data miners. Another note: Randomized trials are certainly as important as you say, but too often basic physiology is not included in the equation, at least as a sanity check. And in all of this, Hubris is given too much sway instead of Humility.
